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** FILE ** Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, outline the main areas of proposed defense spending cuts during a Jan. 26, 2012, news conference at the Pentagon. (Associated Press)

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Pentagon to move women closer to front lines

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**FILE** President Obama leaves Feb. 3, 2012, after speaking about the economy during an event at Fire Station #5 in Arlington, Va. Fire Station No. 5 was one of the first stations to respond to the 9/11 attack at the Pentagon. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Gen. Raymond Odierno, Army chief of staff, speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on Jan. 27, 2012, to discuss cuts to the Army. (Associated Press)

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The USS Enterprise is among a fleet of 11 carriers that the Navy maintains by law, but Pentagon budget cuts have the service talking behind the scenes of protecting only 10 for future missions, sources say. (Associated Press)

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President Obama, joined by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (third from left), Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey (center) and various senior Defense Department and military officials, discusses the Defense Strategic Review and a military strategy that will include large defense cuts at the Pentagon on Thursday. (Associated Press)

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President Obama (right) and Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta share a laugh with the press corps after the president spoke on the Defense Strategic Review on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, at the Pentagon in Arlington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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** FILE ** Pentagon press secretary George Little (center) takes part in an audio news conference with Brig. Gen. Stephen A. Clark of the Air Force Special Operations Command (pictured on a television top right) at the Pentagon on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey arrive for a news conference at the Pentagon on Thursday. Mr. Panetta ordered new reviews into mismanagement at the military's national mortuary in Delaware. (Associated Press)

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Todd Bryant, of Springfield, Va., from left, Steve Cribby, of Bowie, Md., and Stanley Cowan, of Washington, D.C., wait inside the Pentagon metro station to "stay warm as long as I can," said Bryant, before running in the 36th Marine Corps Marathon in Arlington, Va. on Oct. 30, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)

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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is escorted in the rain to his car at the Pentagon on Oct. 12, 2011, after his meeting with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. (Associated Press)

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Tesfaye Sendeku, 26, of Ethiopia finishes in first place at the 27th Army Ten-Miler race at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, October 9, 2011. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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An honor guard bugler plays taps at the the Pentagon Memorial as the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is observed at the Pentagon outside Washington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (right) and Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta participate in a commemorative ceremony on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon in Washington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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The 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is observed at the Pentagon in Washington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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A Secret Service countersniper team looks out from atop the Pentagon during a 10th-anniversary remembrance ceremony at the Pentagon Memorial in Washington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Soldiers lay wreaths at the Pentagon Memorial on the benches bearing the names of the victims during the 10th-anniversary ceremony of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon outside Washington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Adm. Mike Mullen (left), Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (center) and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stand during the playing of the national anthem at the Pentagon in Arlington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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A woman lays a sunflower on a bench honoring a victim of the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon as the 10th anniversary of the event is observed at the Pentagon outside Washington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Wreaths laid by a service member during the commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon sit on each of the 184 memorial benches of the Pentagon Memorial in Arlington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)